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Six months ago, more than 400,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the southern Filipino island of Mindanao when Tropical Storm Washi hit the area. Some people moved in with family members, while others lived in emergency evacuation centres. At the height of the crisis, about 70,000 displaced...

At the height of the drought in Kenya last year, when an estimated 3.8 million people needed food assistance, World Vision International (WVI) launched a school feeding programme to reach the children hardest hit by the crisis in the Kajiado region, southwestern Kenya.
An allocation of US$150,...

Kaligan lives with her husband and eight children in Maguindanao on the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Maguindanao, which literally means ‘people of the flood plains,’ is prone to climate-related disasters and has been seriously affected by conflict between the Government and...

Humanitarian partners in Haiti are bracing for an increase in new cases of cholera as the hurricane season gets underway. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), heavy rains and flooding could contaminate water sources and trigger a surge of up to 4,000 new cholera cases per week in the...

Security operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not...